Plott Hound Magazine

Plott Hound is open to submissions for another 10 days!

Check us out. This submission period we're looking for poems, flash fiction, and short stories.

Submit here: plotthound.moksha.io

The howlidays are coming up soon and Plott Hound is open for winter 2025 submissions! No extra gift in your stocking for winter-themed stories, but no coal either. 🐺❄️

Today, December 2nd, I read A Pale Herd, a Worm Moon by Simo Srinivas in @plotthoundmag.bsky.social.

"It was a worm moon, and Lizbet-called-Daisy was no longer alone in the corral."

A lushly written, poetic and moving story about a cow and "night-calves" with imagery I won't soon forget.

It’s that time of year! Here are my award eligible poems and short stories published in 2025. Thank you! I’m grateful for any and all consideration. ❤️

@strangehorizons.bsky.social @uncannymagazine.bsky.social @trollbreathmag.bsky.social @plotthoundmag.bsky.social
@crayfishmag.bsky.social

In case you're an internet animal writer that is unaware of this pub:

(Just be sure to read their submission guidelines, as they don't want zipperbacking, which eliminates a lot of furry stuff.)

Only the first day in and Plott Hound is already getting pelted with AI generated submissions. But we have sharp noses. We can sniff them out.

NO AI SUBMISSIONS, please. We want animal stories and poetry to come from real people.

We are open to submissions until December 15th!

Send us your poetry, your flash fiction, your short stories yearning to break free.

plotthound.moksha.io/publication/...

Submit submit submit!

plotthound.moksha.io/publication/...

(Submissions sent during our December 1-15 window will be published in our February 2026 issue.)

Many a magazine is open in November, including @trashcatlit.bsky.social and several others.

Get your work out the door and into our eager paws!

Stuff I'd love to see more of in the Plott Hound slush:
-science fiction
-less popular and more obscure species
-subversive, refreshing takes on familiar mythical creatures and cryptids
-xenospecies/critters entirely made up by you!
-non-Western cultures and settings

While everyone's talking about turkey, we're talking about Plott Hound Magazine!

The Plott Hound Pack is howling, because we're opened to submissions on December 1st!

Short stories, flash fiction, essay pitches, and poetry welcome.

Check out our guidelines: plotthoundmag.com/submissions/

Very excited to have my flash story, “Hold Your Horses Close” in this issue!

Issue 3 of Plott Hound Magazine is now live!

Subscribers should have already received their copies via email.

Find all issues here!: plotthoundmag.com/issues/

Plott Hound Issue 3 is now unleashed into the wild! 🍂🦊

Included in this autumn menagerie:
-a feared & worshipped python
-a species that wear emotion on color of their fur
-a cemetery cat
-void whales
-& more

Buy it and other back issues here: plotthoundmag.com/issues/

Hey all, we're getting ready to open again for submissions.

We're looking for your flash fiction, short stories, poems, and essay pitches starting December 1st!

Check out our guidelines here: plotthoundmag.com/submissions/

Cover reveal for Plott Hound Issue 3 (by @madbrake.bsky.social) ✨🍂

"At the Edge of the Tale" by @authortrsteele.bsky.social free to read online!

​“You are either very wise,” said Twirl, “or very cruel.”

​The unicorn’s long lashes swept over their cheek. “Why can I not be both?”

plotthoundmag.com/at-the-edge-...

"Hound of Annwn" by @remedy.bsky.social free to read online!

"You want to press your snout into the wound, but have just enough man-sense left in your dog-mind to hold back and stay still, your ears tucked down low..."

plotthoundmag.com/hound-of-ann...

Apex Magazine 2026 is A Project We Love on Kickstarter!! ❤️🍾🥂🎉

Thank you to everyone who's donated so far! If you haven't checked us out yet, don't be shy! There's room for everyone at the monster mash 👻🪦

www.kickstarter.com/projects/ape...

All of the submissions from September should have heard back by now.

If you're still waiting, please check your spam filter, and if you still find nothing, please query.

We are happy to sniff about Moksha and figure out what's up.

"Mild Fish and Linen" by Veronica Mullin now free to read online!

"The name they had for him, or what passed for one, was a low tut and a breath through the nose, followed by a little rasp. It meant, as near as he could translate, 'Mild Fish and Linen.'"

plotthoundmag.com/mild-fish-an...

"Flames Sprout Wings" by @cdgoodman.bsky.social free to read online!

"I saw. I know. Night grows hot. Egg cracks embers. Flames sprout wings and a phoenix hatches awake."

plotthoundmag.com/flames-sprou...

YOU DID IT! We are at $12,000 exactly!! REPRINTS REPRINTS!!

"After a Wolf Swallowed the Sun" by @linardos.bsky.social free to read online!

"Man wanted the sun, and he’d have sucked it dry, turned it to tall towers of glass and more machines. So I swallowed it, to protect it from the Man.”

plotthoundmag.com/after-a-wolf...

"In the Sea of Binary Stars" by @herlizardness.bsky.social free to read online!

"We are both shadows of each other, but we are also ebb and flow, binary stars forever circling, both shining just as bright."

plotthoundmag.com/in-the-sea-o...

"Your Birdsong Pleading" by @loragray.bsky.social now free to read online!

"So, why, sister, are you here, with your milky feathers, your downy breast, your songbird pleading for more time, more love, more sameness?"

plotthoundmag.com/your-birdson...

"Who is Wrong When They Are Hungry" by @emmiechristie33.bsky.social now free to read online!

"You step out of the skin around your legs and kick it off like you are a tree and it was bark you had to scrape off."

plotthoundmag.com/who-is-wrong...

"Animapod" by Kite Marsh now free to read online!

"Always together; always side by side. I thought sometimes it would be more pleasant to be Eight, or One, and have some privacy to one side at least."

plotthoundmag.com/animapod-by-...

"To Dream of Birdsong" by @parkeriswriting.bsky.social now free to read online!

"Ren dreams in her pyrobed for three years as the ship diverts its course, travels to the next destination. She has died six hundred and seventeen times."

plotthoundmag.com/to-dream-of-...

"When the Crow Sings" by Anna Madden is now free to read online!

"Her voice is a thundering, a wooing.
It grays into a many-beaked murder
eating the hearts of mortal man."

plotthoundmag.com/when-the-cro...